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[SubRosa]

Acadian: As Lil said, paralyze is now alteration. Both it and invisibility need a skill level of 75 to cast them now, and can only be learned by joining the College of Winterhold. Andraste does have an absorb health spell, but she has not used it in ages. I'd rather concentrate on her Illusion instead.


liliandra nadiar: Andraste is only planning on Victory. I saw the Imperial Investigator outfit yesterday. It does not do anything for me though. The texture quality is just not very good. It is all grainy looking. The other ones are way too modern-looking for me, especially with the short-shorts, and bare tummies.


King Coin: The nightingale armor has always been one of my favorites in Skyrim. It completely covers your character it is actual armor. It also looks like it is made from nothing more fancy than leather, so anyone could make it. So long as you had the skill and artistry.


Grits: Allek as Batman! I am trying not to snicker, considering that he is your thief.

My Falkreath is always sunny. I made a mod that improves the weather everywhere. It makes the game much more fun.


Calm spells keep those Spriggans friendly

Washing off in a waterfall

Moonrise

Daedra Dog Farts...

Andraste breaks out her winter camo

Shooting a necromancer

Here comes that arrow

This one speaks for itself

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jul 1 2012, 03:06 AM

[Grits]

Go ahead and snicker, it gets better. By the time Allek earned his Batman costume, he had joined the Dark Brotherhood. That was another uniform that got immediately stuffed into storage. He wears the Mourners Clothes and black Fine Boots when he goes out killing. So yeah, the superhero kit had to go!

I love that armor in white! It looks like Andraste is on a road trip. What happened in the fart picture? Is that a fire atronach? Beautiful colors in the Moonrise picture! That one is my favorite.

[King Coin]

Moonrise if my favorite of the bunch, but dog farts was pretty funny! The pose of the dog and the wide eyes of Andraste makes that pic just perfect!

Aravi is going to have to try the Nightingale armor and the thieves’ guild armor. I spent quite a bit of time on Nexus last night and was disappointed by what was available. I found one set that looked pretty good and didn’t give Aravi DD breasts, but there’s a very noticeable gap where the ankles are supposed to be…

[Acadian]

Thanks for showing me what a SkySprig looks like. Yay, another elf who appreciates waterfalls enough to drop her clothes for them! Moonrise = Pritty. Was Andraste trying to light the dog fart with a fire spell? The white armor looks great (so does the darker armor for non-snow). Great capture of that arrow in flight! I’m guessing that’s Clavicle Vile’s Brooklyn Barbidog?

[SubRosa]

Grits: I like the Mourner's Clothes. They did a good job on the armor in this game, but the regular clothing is kind of blah, at least for women. The lower class peasant stuff is alright, but the upper class clothing is just bland. I really miss Oblivion's Tudor-Era gowns.

That was indeed a Flame Astronaut in that fart pic. Andraste walked over to pick up the salts, and Barbas just plopped right down beside her. It was just begging for a picture.


King Coin: You can get either Nightingale or TG armor in the vanilla game. Either by doing the quests, or just make a mod that makes them craftable. That is what I did, since I do not imagine any of my characters ever doing the TG questline.


Acadian: That is the Brooklyn Barbas dog himself. He is one of those things that is hard to avoid in this game. Sort of like In-Laws. Pics do not do the Skyrim Spriggans justice. They are filled with glowing little beelike things, that are always swarming around them. They also have a tendency to walk right out of trees, which is really cool. Up until they attack you.

How did he get so big?

Andraste tries on a bandit chief's armor

She will stick with her nightingale gear

A vid of Andraste lending a hand to some orcs

[Acadian]

Those giants are pretty cool! I like Andraste’s snappy pose as she ponders one.

The bandit chief armor looks good. Methinks I agree that the Nightingale is a bit nicer looking for her. Still loving her beautiful eye color; especially now that you have that softer lip color.

Vid: Yay, Malacath! He is so cool! Yamarz has a personality that is similar to that encountered when first meeting Mazoga; however, I think ‘Zoga’s got more stones than this hide-in-his-hut fellow. Okay, he’s dead now; Malacath was right. Good job Andraste. Now, did she leave Volundrung there because she could not take it or because she has no interest in such things? I suspect the latter. As you recall, Buffy couldn't even lift the darn thing in OB.

I also liked Andraste's display of illusion as she calmed those bears instead of killing them. Does she have the blood of a stringy forester somewhere in her veins?

This post has been edited by Acadian: Jul 3 2012, 01:43 AM

[King Coin]

Holy crap! We open with her bounding down a mountain!

I know of this quest. Aravi came across it too. We put it on hold though, and if she does it, we probably won’t record it.

Well… Aravi would be disinclined to help such a rude orc. The cave looks familiar! That’s where I took the screen shot of Kharjo in his armor at!

LOL! So much for the chief! I wonder what happens if YOU get the hammer. Does Malacath get pissed and kill the orc?

Nice hammer. Too bad Andraste will have no use for it.

[Grits]

I love that picture with the giant! Each of them pondering the other.

The first time through that cave, I could not find the way out! It was ridiculous. Those really are giant sized steps!

Chief Yamarz is not a friendly guy. I like how Andraste Calmed the bears. I thought she was going to heal them! She didn’t seem to enjoy having Malacath’s voice in her head. That was a neat view of Volundrung with the moon. It seems fitting to leave it on the shrine.

[SubRosa]

As I mentioned in the Skyrim forum, I decided to try out a new type of character, who dual-wields daggers. I have a basic background already. Eris is an orphan from the Imperial City, left in a garbage heap with the umbilical cord from her mother still around her neck. Her life did not improve much after that. She was educated in the penal system, and was eventually sentenced to life working in the Butcher Bay mine for murder. She paid a prison mage two bottles of skooma to do a shine job on her eyes, so she could see in the dark. Later she escaped, and fled to Skyrim with a bounty on her head. (Any guesses which shaven-headed, knife-wielding anti-hero she is based upon?)

Here is Eris

I could not use the completely shaven head with her, because of this weird texture glitch. It happens with all the races too.

So I gave her a little more hair, and tried out the thieves guild armor

I have not had the chance yet, but I plan to try out this mod to use with her

[Grits]

Riddick!! Woo hoo, I love it!

[SubRosa]

Yep! I have been getting in a Riddick mood lately. I think I might watch Pitch Black later tonight.

I gave her the Khajiit night eye lesser power to simulate the shine job on her eyes. I still have to decide what she is going to do for a ranged attack. Bow or Magic. A bound bow would be neat, but I understand that is really high level. I suppose I could mod the game to make it lower though...

The goggle mod is a no go however. It makes the game crash when I start up. Even with different versions of the mod.

I found a mod that adds a bound dagger spell. One of the best things about it is that Eris can hotkey a regular dagger, which will appear in her right hand. Being a spell, the bound dagger appears in her left hand.

Eris takes on Embershard Mine

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jul 4 2012, 10:45 PM

[Acadian]

Eris has neat eyes, and I’ll bet she saves a lot on hair care products! I really like that thieves armor. That is a great idea to keep her left hand for spells and summon a bound dagger there as needed! Brilliant!

That vid nicely showed how the daggers work – she’s good with them. If I’m correct, also displayed her custom ‘eye’ fix to see in the dark when needed. Nice footwork with the bow also.

[Grits]

Eris looks like so much fun! I love her shined eyes, and the bound dagger is perfect!

[King Coin]

I think I'm going to do a dual dagger character here for the thieves guild. That looked like a lot of fun. Conjuration looked like an excellent pairing for that as well. I've had trouble with seeing in the dark at times when I'm not playing Aravi, the night eye is just too useful. The shiny eyes are excellent in that way.

This post has been edited by King Coin: Jul 5 2012, 01:46 PM

[King Coin]

oops.

This post has been edited by King Coin: Jul 5 2012, 01:46 PM

[SubRosa]

Acadian: I like that thieves guild armor too. I think Eris is going to have to upgrade soon though. She recently passed level 20, and suddenly she is taking a much greater beating in fights than she used to. I think she is falling behind in the Elder Scrolls arms race.

I used the console to give her the Khajiit Night Eye power. Along with the background story of it being done by a prison mage of course. I got the eyes from Mystic Eyes, the same mod that Andraste's eyes were from.


Grits: The bound dagger is really powerful at lower levels. I am not sure what the stats are (I never really looked). But it might be the same as a Daedric dagger. It is starting to get a little weak now that she is level 22 though. Same with Valdr's Lucky Dagger.


King Coin: The whole dual dagger idea has been a lot more fun than I had hoped for. Conjuration levels up extremely fast when you are using bound weapons. . That is Eris' highest skill, more than One-Handed in fact. The perks for the bound weapons require really low skill levels too. The highest is 50. So it is very powerful in the early game.


I modded the game to give Eris a bound light bow, with the same stats as a hunting bow

Eris puts her fist through a Spriggan's head

Doing what she does best

Sneaking up on some Forsworn

Eris meets her first Briarheart

Eris sneaks up behind a vampire

No more vampire

Guess who is next?

[liliandra nadiar]

Eris. Doing her part to prevent a population boom. One neck at a time.

[King Coin]

Movarth's going to have a rough week. Eris hasn't met a neck she doesn't like to cut has she?

My first time playing, I used bound weapons a lot and it was a blast. I'd really like to play another conjuration character. If I do a dual dagger character, they will not be summoning weapons.

[Acadian]

Nice looking bound bow. And bound arrows too!

Spriggan smashin’ – I take it that our round-eared Eris is not a tree hugger.

Sneaky double daggers!

[SubRosa]

liliandra nadiar: One neck at a time... I have to remember that one.


King Coin: The whole scene in Morvath's Lair was just perfect. Eris sneaked up on and killed every one in there one at a time, without getting the attention of anyone else. Pure Riddick.

If you do the bound weapons again, I found some mods on the Nexus that fix a lot of the issues. There are several that make the One Handed enchantments work, one that makes the Bladesman perk work, and even one that replaces the dual dagger power attack animation. I am using them all now. The power attack is really amazing now.


Acadian: The Bound Arrows are a neat touch. They even stick around after you kill someone with them. Although you cannot pick them back up again. Eris is definitely no tree hugger! Her idea of a Calm spell is a dagger across the throat!

Eris decided to try out the Lord Stone. First she had to sneak up on and kill the bandits there one at at time

Like so

Then there were none

A short vid of Eris taking on a Giant for the Jarl of Morthal

A short vid of Eris vs. a Frost Troll. (The move where she spins around is the new dual dagger power attack)

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jul 9 2012, 12:53 AM